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| Name: | pete bowler |
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| Location: | South Wales U.k |
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| Member since: | May 24, 2002 |
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Fat Buddha has posted 88 links and 718 comments to SportsFilter and 10 links and 577 comments to the Locker Room.
Tracing footballs tribal roots: is a good article, which might be of interest to aficionados of the beautiful game. Should there be a daily world cup huddle where stuff like this can get posted?
posted by Fat Buddha to soccer at 02:48 PM on June 09, 2010 - 4 comments
The comedy club of Newcastle Utd F.C: Continues to have us all rolling in the aisles. When he was at Wimbledon, Joe Kinnear, Newcastles caretaker manager used to come across as quite avuncular and jovial, as soon as he turned up at Newcastle though, he looked old, sad, lost and bewildered. Time (a full week) in the job seems to have taken its toll, if this transcript of a press conference is anything to go by. You need to read right until the end for the full belly laugh.
posted by Fat Buddha to soccer at 02:58 PM on October 03, 2008 - 8 comments
Feck off to Vile Park: is a favourite response to opinions that may be unkind to my chosen team on the various message boards that I frequent. It's the same on every other board, apparently. This is a great article which one or two on here might relate to.
posted by Fat Buddha to soccer at 11:28 AM on February 08, 2008 - 6 comments
Belated birthday wishes: to football! Sheffield FC, the oldest club in the world celebrated its 150th birthday yesterday. Meanwhile, the muscular Christians responsible for starting many of our clubs also deserve a bit of recognition. Who would have thunk it, from a sport which was popularised as result of attempts to keep scraggy arsed working class males from marmalising one another in pubs ............................to David Beckham.
posted by Fat Buddha to soccer at 05:38 PM on October 25, 2007 - 5 comments
More fantasy soccer: I appreciate that we already have a perfectly good league and don't need another. However. The Sunday Times reckons its new game is more cerebral than the others, requiring more thought and analysis. The scoring system is more complex and transfers have to be negotiated with other managers. It could be good, it could be crap, who knows. Anyway, I have taken the liberty of setting up a spofi league with room for 15 teams. Feel free to join. The league name is Spofi and the password is Lebowski
posted by Fat Buddha to fantasy at 03:04 PM on July 28, 2007 - 15 comments
A bus carrying 50 Russian fans has been stopped by riot police, intending to deport them, as UEFA state that Russia has been given a suspended suspension. As it were.
If their fans play up again, the team will be kicked out. This only applies to incidents in the stadium, though, so they can do what they like outside.
No word yet on whether the carrying of concealed gum shields is to be made illegal
posted by Fat Buddha at 07:26 AM on June 14, 2016
The Louis van Gaal press conference today was powerful, emotional and rivetting.
It was good to see a high profile manager let the assembled press vipers see how their malicious words and relentless pursuit of the sensational affects people.
It was telling that not one of them would admit to feeling uncomfortable.
Of course, being the pack dogs that they are, seeing him wounded, they won't back off, they will go in for the kill, with glee.
posted by Fat Buddha at 02:58 PM on December 23, 2015
I think it's pretty standard for yo yoclubs like Birmingham and West Brom to have a relegation clause. It benefits both parties: if the team goes down they can't afford prem wages, and the player wants neither a drop in wages or status.
It's a right old merry go round at the top, isn't it? Mourinho gone, and likely to fetch up at Manchester Utd when Van Gaal gets the boot, Pellegrino likely on his bike to be replaced by Gardiola. It's like musical chairs and none of 'em know where they will be when the music stops.
Meanwhile, here's a brilliant article on the special gone
posted by Fat Buddha at 12:31 PM on December 22, 2015
New Zealands Sonny Boy Williams is my new favourite rugby player, after giving his medal away to a nipper who had fallen foul of a shithouse security man
posted by Fat Buddha at 05:23 PM on October 31, 2015
New Zealand are streets ahead of anyone else, but I hope Australia find a way to beat 'em, for the following reasons: New Zealanders tend to be arseholes, not all of 'em, but enough of 'em to put you right off the bastards; Michael Chieka is a witty and droll motherperson; and David Pocock has a hinterland.
I think the formline for Australia is a bit false. Fair enough they got through the so called group of death unbeaten, but England were not very good, and neither were Wales. Any tier 1 team would expect to beat Fiji, however spirited a performance they put up.
So fair play, they beat 3 poor teams, mind you, they did effin hammer England.
Then they struggled against Scotland, a team who would finish bottom of the 6 nations every year, if it wasn't for the hapless Italians, before beating Argentina by the tiniest of gnats cocks.
You don't get to a world cup final by being lucky, they deserve to be there, and I hope they win, but they're going to get hammered.
posted by Fat Buddha at 06:08 PM on October 30, 2015
Well, hello. I'm badly in need of a misery song after Englands extraordinary achievment in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at the rugby world cup
posted by Fat Buddha at 05:03 PM on September 27, 2015
I've always considered Todd Rundgren's "Just One Victory" to be one of the great sports songs, but I think I'm on my own.
posted by Fat Buddha at 09:06 PM on September 25, 2015
Typically astute of Suarez to head for Barcelona as they are on the slide, while Liverpool are on the way up. If he sees out all 5 of his contracted seasons, I will eat my hat
posted by Fat Buddha at 06:25 PM on July 11, 2014
I don't understand the daily huddle. It frightens me. That's why I stopped coming.
posted by Fat Buddha at 06:24 PM on July 10, 2014
When I made my awful, useless team, it automatically put me in the Spofi league. I am surmising that this is the incorrect league?
posted by Fat Buddha at 05:26 PM on August 24, 2012
I don't usually have much interest in Liverpool Bill, being as they are usually at the top end and we usually stuff 'em, but I am interested this year, because of the signings since January. I read about the owners and how they go about recruitment in the baseball (or is football) teams in the USA, and it doesn't really seem to add up.
posted by Fat Buddha at 06:26 PM on August 12, 2011
I'm not a fan of the top end of the prem, but there is some fascinating stuff at the bottom and the middle.
Swansea tend to try and play a version of the beautiful game so I am looking forward to see how they do.
I'm hoping Martinez has a great season with Wigan, for at least 2 reasons.
I'm hoping, and predicting that McLeish has a rubbish season with Villa.
I'm intrigued by all Bruces buys at Sunderland.
I'm wondering how Pardew will cope with second season syndrome at Newcastle
Jol's appointment at Fulham bodes well for some entertainment, if only in the press conferences.
I'm looking forward to Hodgsons gnomic post match comments.
And, Bill, dear boy..football started back last week, for gawds sake!
posted by Fat Buddha at 04:16 PM on August 12, 2011
Ta. No messing about this year. No sentimental desire to pollute my team with rubbish Birmingham players. Everyone will be hanging on to my coat tails!
posted by Fat Buddha at 04:08 PM on August 12, 2011
I might be in and I might not, I can't figure it out
posted by Fat Buddha at 01:37 PM on August 11, 2011
SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle
Looks like Kalinic of Croatia has been banished from the squad after refusing to go on a sub in the 88th minute, claiming a bad back. Drama.